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United Kingdom Anti-Drugs Co-ordinator's Annual Report 1999/2000

NCJ Number
188585
Author(s)
Keith Hellawell
Date Published
November 2000
Length
70 pages
Annotation
This second Annual Report (1999-2000) of the United Kingdom's Anti-Drugs Coordinator reports on progress in implementing the Governments' 10-year strategy to address the drug problem.
Abstract
The report focused on England in describing how the drug-control strategy had been delivered in detail and by target. The report indicates that most targets for 1999-2000 had been met in full. The strategy's four primary aims were to prevent drug use by youth through education in the schools and the mounting of a range of drug-prevention activities that target youth; community-based dispositions for drug offenders that focus on treatment; expansion of the number and quality of drug treatment programs; and countering drug trafficking. Among the key achievements of 1999-2000 were the establishment of the Drugs Prevention Advisory Service; an increase in the number of schools with a drug education policy to 93 percent for secondary schools and 75 percent for primary schools; and arrest referral schemes for all police forces in England and Wales. There had been a steady increase in the number of drug abusers receiving treatment services, and drug treatment was available for drug abusers in every prison in England and Wales. Drug seizures had increased 33.5 percent from the previous year, and the number of heroin and cocaine trafficking groups disrupted increased 9.2 percent, nearly double the target set. Appended tables of targets for 2002 and 1999-2000, financial information, and examples of good practice in education; a glossary; and 17 references